Dimitri Lascaris ~> Greek democracy is dead – and the EU killed it

Dimitri Lascaris Aug 25 READ

On June 26, 2023, Greece’s right-wing New Democracy Party (NDP), led by Harvard-educated, former banker Kyriakos Mitsotakis, secured an outright majority in Greece’s Parliamentary election. It did so with the lowest turnout since the fall of Greece’s U.S.-backed military junta in 1974, and the support of a mere 21.4% of eligible voters.

At the same time, the nominally left-wing Syriza, led by former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, suffered a devastating defeat. Syriza secured only 17.8% of the vote – its lowest share of the popular vote since it first came to power in 2015. Mercifully, Tsipras later resigned from the leadership of Syriza, a position he had held for fifteen years.

How did it come to this?

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A child of the peace and antiWar movements, a Truther with self-diagnosed Opposition Defiance Disorder, formerly politically liberal tho now politically marooned, and Post-Doomer, on any issue, I trend to the conspiracy side, sort through the absurd, fantastical and insane, until I find firm ground usually located just the other side of the censorship firewall of propaganda and orthodoxy, dogma, and other either / or thinking.

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